despite a high wind,
the star magnolia beams,
petals aflutter
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Tag Archives: Flower
Forsythia Sunshine
A rain, rain, go-away morning,
and its less mellow-fellow,
a gloom-and-doom,
thunder-and-lightning noon,
soon bursts into a
hello-yellow-sunshine afternoon,
when forsythia blooms.
Because even a gray day
can’t stay that way.
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Cherry Blossom Blur
through the window of
the taxi came the warm wind
and a blur of blossoms
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To my lawn chair in April
April sunshine warms,
waking bulbs from their long sleep,
bringing back robins
playgrounds hold laughing children,
a lawn chair is all I need
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Remembering love
love,
born in a small child,
a calm six years young,
holding an infant with
tiny toes, heavy head,
hungry, trusting, growing, Continue reading
May Queen
The rhododendron doesn’t bloom
like the cherry, in wispy pink petals
that fall like snow in the first wind,
no, the rhododendron blooms
like a queen, standing her ground,
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In the Greenhouse
under the glass sky
trembling like butterfly wings,
thousands of orchids
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After a hard rain
after a hard rain,
flowers cast away petals
and bow to the wind
the rich darkness of the earth
smells ripe, bitter and alive
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Hear your own singing
Saturday morning,
the birds create a stir but
the wind holds its breath
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Robins Return
I take comfort,
no matter white streaks
in my hair, endless
cold nights, and
long work days —
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Late December
Winter days dwindle,
tree lights, tinsel and
hearts kindle.
Chilled to the bone,
those who roamed
came home.
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Goldenrod After Rainfall
Mount Greylock, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
wringing out
a rain-soaked t-shirt,
my son smiles
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